About what a huge mistake it was to invade Iraq. Because this is the future-and its not worth the price we paid, and are continuing to pay: I don’t think Americans yet recognize that we’re not going to like the long-term result in Iraq. The best-case scenario is probably the
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Why it matters
And why all of the folks defending the indefensible are wrong. James Fallows sums it up very well: Nonetheless I contend that a full process of American self-examination and accountability will make a tremendous long-term difference in international views of the United States. Even among those who at the moment
Continue readingHe must have never gotten the memo…….
Dick Cheney that is. Current CENTCOM gives him and ADTAKE*: *Advise action Taken. A message from higher authority asking you (sometimes not very politely) WTFO. Getting one was not a good thing.
Continue readingSome real good advice for the new President….
Reprinted from the Britannica Blog. I especially agree with bullet 1-a well timed veto of a Pelosi or Harry Reid pet project would be a good way to break away from the so called “liberal” moniker. Maybe veto Card check perhaps? In his victory speech on Tuesday night, Barack Obama
Continue readingCongratulations President Elect Obama…..
It’s hard to imagine a more inspiring back-to-back of political addresses than McCain’s concession and Obama’s victory speech. Is this a great country or what? I’ve gotten a lot of e-mails from friends tonight bemoaning how the end of the world is upon us and Obama will take the nation
Continue readingI’m not afraid…….
Of voting tomorrow………….. On so many blogs, the predictions are of doom and gloom, of jack booted socialists taking money they did not earn, guns they did not purchase, and how taxes will rise and rise and rise. There is real and unwarranted fear of some sort of beginning of
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Of voting tomorrow………….. On so many blogs, the predictions are of doom and gloom, of jack booted socialists taking money they did not earn, guns they did not purchase, and how taxes will rise and rise and rise. There is real and unwarranted fear of some sort of beginning of
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Reprinted from The Economist, who has it right: America should take a chance and make Barack Obama the next leader of the free world
Continue readingWelcome to 1973…….
Now if only I could be 16 again In 1973, the Vietnam war came to an end for the US, the Arabs started one in the Middle East, and the stock market lost half its value and the world went into a world wide recession. Oil prices doubled. I also
Continue readingAt least they are having a debate…….
The Army is-among itself. Andrew Bacevich chronicles it. The chief participants in this debate—all Iraq War veterans—fixate on two large questions. First, why, after its promising start, did Operation Iraqi Freedom go so badly wrong? Second, how should the hard-earned lessons of Iraq inform future policy? Hovering in the background
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